The attempt and not the deed Confounds us.
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Action   
Quotes from Plays   
Work: Macbeth", Act 2 scene 2
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.
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Time   
Quotes from Plays   
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From the still-vexed Bermoothes.
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Quotes from Plays   
Work: The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
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A kind Of excellent dumb discourse.
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Quotes from Plays   
Work: The Tempest", Act 3 scene 3
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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
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Time   
Quotes from Plays   
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Lord, what fools these mortals be!
Subject:
Stupidity   
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A little more than kin, and less than kind.
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Quotes from Plays   
Work: Hamlet", Act 1 scene 2
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Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
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Honesty   
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Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
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Silence   
Work: Much Ado about Nothing, Act 2 scene 1
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I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.
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Language   
Work: Othello", Act 4 scene 2
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I have Immortal longings in me.
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Immortality   
Work: Antony and Cleopatra", Act 5 scene 2
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This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.
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England   
Work: King John", Act 5 scene 7
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Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
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Wisdom   
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I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
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Quotes from Plays   
Work: The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 3 scene 2
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Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.
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Sanity   
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How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
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Patience   
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My library Was dukedom large enough.
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Quotes from Plays   
Work: The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
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Vices   
Work: King Lear", Act 5 scene 3
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Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
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Quotes from Plays   
Work: Macbeth", Act 2 scene 1
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How use doth breed a habit in a man.
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Habits   
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